The fiancé of the off-duty Massachusetts cop who was shot this week in an armed confrontation with one of her fellow officers as they tried to serve her with a restraining order feared she would kill their infant son and herself, according to court records.
The North Andover firefighter sought an abuse prevention restraining order against new mom Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28, fearing that the disturbing and suicidal behavior she exhibited while she was pregnant and after she gave birth would escalate against their 4-month-old son, The Boston Globe reported.
“I fear she will kill the baby at any moment,” he wrote in the order application.
“Kelsey is threatening to take the baby ‘far, far, far away for a long, long time.’ This is how she has spoken about killing herself in the past,” he added. “She punched her stomach repeatedly while pregnant, saying she would kill herself and the baby.”
The firefighter fiancé said the danger was made even more evident during a June 28 outing with friends, when Fitzsimmons allegedly punched him in the face three times and in an intoxicated rage, chased after him and their child when he sought help at a friend’s house.
He claimed their friend group contacted four different police departments during the incident, which ended with Fitzsimmons’ parents arriving to take custody of the child.
“I fear if she doesn’t have me she will kill the baby because she has said she has nothing besides me,” he wrote. ”Fitzsimmons is a danger to myself, her son and herself.”
The new father also warned police that Fitzsimmons would not take it well when they presented her with the restraining order, which proved true on Monday evening when three officers arrived at the home to serve her.
Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker said Fitzsimmons engaged in an “armed confrontation” with her colleagues, which resulted in an officer shooting her once in the chest.
Fitzsimmons was rushed by helicopter to a Boston hospital, where she is listed in stable condition, the DA added.
Fitzsimmons, who spent less than two years with the Andover Police Department, had given birth to a baby boy on Feb. 16, local CNHI reported.
Less than a month later, she was involuntarily committed at the Lowell General Hospital for 12 hours for treatment for postpartum depression after suffering “mental health issues,” court records show.
Following her discharge on March 10, she surrendered her department-issued pistol and at least one of her personal guns.
Fitzsimmons was put on administrative leave on April 30, with her license to carry firearms temporarily suspended due to her hospitalization for mental health treatment.
Her lawyer claimed that Fitzsimmons was meeting with a therapist and was under the care of a psychiatrist to deal with her postpartum depression.
By June 18, the Andover PD cleared her to return to work and restored her license to carry, with Fitzsimmons filing a notice to have her service weapon returned to her.
Officials did not say whether the weapons had been returned to her, but she was still on administrative leave during Monday’s incident.
Fitzsimmons’ fiancé is asking the court to award him full legal custody of their son.
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